Physics 3500/8800
ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Syllabus
Contents:
- Basic
electricity and electrical circuits: A. C. and D. C.
circuits, resistors, capacitors, inductors, and measuring
instruments.
- Power
sources: batteries and elements of power supply design.
- The
amplifier: transistors, their operation and elementary
principles of amplifier design.
- The
operational amplifier: the basic idea and use of packaged
operational amplifier circuits; introduction to the idea
of feedback.
- Oscillators
and more use of feedback: design considerations with
emphasis on packaged circuits.
- The use
of feedback for control: mechanical and electronic
systems.
- Introduction
to pulse and digital circuits; operation and use of
integrated circuit components.
- Data
acquisition and more sophisticated digital circuits;
digital computers, computer interfacing and
microprocessors.
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